Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests

This is a strange "documentary" in that it seems to blame the suicide of a young man (during the production of the film????) on the personality test industry, which "deprived" him of a job at Kroger's. (What?)

I am very sorry that Kyle took his own life, but I also feel that the film does not make the case for anything beyond his own psychological state of insecurity. The militant disability rights advocates in this film--so filled with anger and frustration--are blinded by their religious commitment to the view that everything that happens to anyone who is not a white male happens because of racism, sexism, "ableism" (that's a new one...), capitalism, you name it. I myself am more of a personal responsibility champion. We all encounter disappointments and roadblocks, but some of us figure out ways to innovate and move on. There are plenty examples of very famous and successful people who did just that: Oprah Winfrey, for one.

This film seems to be some sort of manifesto for a communist society where everyone gets to do whatever they want. But as things stand, global capitalism reigns. In the system in which we currently find ourselves, it seems odd to find fault with employers for wanting to hire "able" people. I mean, who would want to hire someone whom they believe to be incompetent?

I am truly sorry that people let other people crush them to the point of making them want to disappear. I myself ignore jerks and set out to make lemonade when provided with lemons. The truth is that jerks will always be here--they cannot be legislated away. They are a fact of life in human society. I myself never took any of these supposedly destructive psychological tests, but having done so I certainly would never run around claiming that my entire identity is captured by four capital letters. Pretty ridiculous, to be perfectly honest. But, then again, people do get lured into religious cults...

I should probably stop watching these pseudo-documentaries, but it is hard to know which ones are truly worthless because they tend to start out strong and then spiral into nonsense. I never watch anything with a red 'N' anymore, but now I see that HBO is indulging in the very same sort of nonsense as Netflix. Ugh.

I had never thought these types of of tests were good for use in the way they are used when reducing applications for job positions. However, if the people who are complaining about how bad these tests are in this documentary are good examples of the type of people being rejected, my mind is changed. If I was hiring somebody, I'd hate to have any of them waste my time interviewing them. They are the type of people who will never rest until they have found something 'problematic' about everything, and they will always interpret it as an institutionalised bias against them personally.

Never quite reaches it's climax with misleading stories to make an unnecessary narrative. Wish it had focused on either sensationalism or pure information but it tries to straddle both and falls short. Not really sure what the point of the film is. It raises several good ones but focuses on one major personality test by showing its impact on an individual while that individual was not affected by that test at all. Intermixed is random history of the main test and an woman who is upset personally disorders exist. I don't disagree with her but I don't quite see how her part fits. Then they have random other people that never really add anything except to show that many people believe in these tests too much. Hopefully no one takes this as factual.

I thoroughly enjoyed the documentary and its contents. It's very eye-opening and definitely worth a watch, especially if you're in the employment market. There were many interesting examples and points of view presented, so I'd say it's quite a well-rounded production. However the technical watchability is rather poor, the music is way too loud and makes it very difficult to understand the speakers. I nearly turned it off because I couldn't hear the speakers properly. Overall, however, definitely worth a watch.

The documentary is a good introduction for anyone not familiar with personality tests however it stays on the surface of the matter in both branches it tries to touch upon (namely the science behind the test, and the socio-economical aspect/impact). But what is the worst thing about this documentary, and if I was rating only that, it would have been 1 star (at most) is what they have done with the sound when loud music always plays on top of people talking so most of the times you can't understand a word they say unless you use subtitles.